Flotilla

The Storm’s Eye [sloop]

The Freya [brigantine]

• Scaggs — Captain (trusted “Tarantula” crewmate)
• Jean-Baptiste LaRoche — First Mate (French; disciplinarian)
• Étienne “Loup” Savary — Boatswain (Dominican Creole; rope, rigging)
• Luc Perrin — Navigator / Sailing Master (Norman; charts, dead reckoning)
• Frère Anselme — Surgeon-Barber (runaway lay brother; sawbones, prayer)
• Pierre Malet — Gunner (former coastal militia)
• Antoine Rigaud — Gunner’s Mate
• Jacques Montreval — Carpenter (shipwright’s apprentice)
• René Fouché — Sailmaker / Rigger
• Michel Duvant — Able Seaman
• Clovis Moreau — Able Seaman
• Benoît Lafleur — Able Seaman
• Armand Casse — Ordinary Seaman (young, reckless)
• Noël “Crab” Toussaint — Ordinary Seaman (reef diver, swimmer)
• Ysabeau — Cook (Dominican woman; knife skills, bad temper)

The Racketeer [frigate]

• Billy Knives — Captain (trusted “Tarantula” crewmate)
• Silas Morel — First Mate (French Huguenot; loyal only to strength)
• Olivier Brûlot — Quartermaster (voted authority; keeps accounts)
• Henri Vautrin — Sailing Master (former merchantman officer)
• “Doctor” Pellier — Surgeon (amputations, rum anesthesia)
• Isaac LeGrand — Carpenter (ex-slave ship yardman; grim, silent)
• Basile Roux — Boatswain (whip and whistle)
• Étienne Noir — Master Gunner (served under Cap’n Rive)
• Marc Desrosiers — Gunner’s Mate
• Claude Hémon — Gunner’s Mate
• Louis “Knuckles” Arnaud — Powder Monkey
• Pascal Vigne — Powder Monkey
• André Pommier — Able Seaman
• Yves Calder — Able Seaman
• Romain Cheval — Able Seaman
• Julien Faure — Able Seaman
• Thierry Malin — Able Seaman
• Gaston Ruel — Able Seaman
• “Red” Malo — Boarder (axe, no fear)
• Corentin Kade — Boarder (former indentured servant)
• Lucien Marron — Boarder (escaped plantation laborer)
• Baptiste Crane — Boarder (scarred, mute)
• Éloi Besson — Cook (rat stews, hard biscuit)
• Simon Pike — Powder & Stores Clerk (hoarder, liar)

The Celeste

Dutch ship, whereabouts unknown.